Paula Deen's Southern Cooking Bible: The New Classic Guide to Delicious Dishes with More Than 300 Recipes Author: Paula Deen | Language: English | ISBN:
B004U7G7AQ | Format: PDF
Paula Deen's Southern Cooking Bible: The New Classic Guide to Delicious Dishes with More Than 300 Recipes Description
Hi, y’all!
This book is my proudest achievement so far, and I just have to tell y’all why I am so excited about it. It’s a book of classic dishes, dedicated to a whole new generation of cooks—for every bride, graduate, and anyone who has a love of a great Southern meal. My family is growing and expanding all the time. We’re blessed with marriages and grandbabies, and so sharing these recipes for honest, down-home dishes feels like passing a generation’s worth of stovetop secrets on to my family, and yours.
I’ve been cooking and eating Southern food my whole life, and I can tell you that every meal you make from this book will be a mouthful of our one-of-a-kind spirit and traditions. These recipes showcase the diversity and ingenuity of Southern cuisine, from Cajun to Low-Country and beyond, highlighting the deep cultural richness of our gumbos and collards, our barbecues and pies. You may remember a few beloved classics from The Lady & Sons, but nearly all of these recipes are brand-new—and I think you’ll find that they are all mouthwateringly delicious. It is, without a doubt, a true Southern cooking bible.
I sincerely hope that this book will take its place in your kitchen for many years to come, as I know it will in mine. Here’s to happy cooking—and the best part, happy eating, y’all!
Best dishes,
Paula Deen
- File Size: 6761 KB
- Print Length: 480 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1 edition (October 11, 2011)
- Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc
- Language: English
- ASIN: B004U7G7AQ
- Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #85,692 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Reference - #59
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- #22
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Regional & International > U.S. Regional > South - #50
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Reference - #59
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Baking > Desserts
I am a Southern-raised transplant to California and also not a cook. But I bought this book so that I'd have a compendium of Southern recipies to share with my California-native wife. About a year ago, I visited Paula Deen's Savannah restaurant, The Lady & Sons, and absolultely loved the food. No other celebrity chef is more closely identified with Southern cooking than the highly-commercialized Deen, so I'm accepting her authority for this "bible."
This is only the 2nd or 3rd cookbook I've ever bought in my life, so I don't have much to compare it to. But the book does what it promises and lives up to its title. After a 5-page introduction from Deen about the history and variety of Southern cuisine, the book has over 20 well-organized chapters, each specifically separated by type of dish. Most recipes take up one full page, although a few are half-a-page and others 2 pages. Some recipies have diagrams to explain certain techniques. Almost every recipe has either a "tip" from Paula that explains a particularly significant part of the recipe or offers a substitution that might suit alternative tastes. The instructions are easy-to-understand and very direct.
The recipies are not accompanied with photos of each dish. There are two sections of color photos which depict a small number of the finished dishes (with references to the page number of the corresponding recipe). This is one criticism I have of the book - I would have preferred a thicker book with glossy paper and a color photo of each completed dish on the same page as the recipe.
The book is well-made - with standard hardcover cookbook binding that makes it easy to lay open to a specific page in the kitchen. There is a standard book jacket that wouldn't withstand moisture.
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